Ben Baldazo (Research Plans)

Startups of Houston Interactive Maps - The Whole Process

Use Google Maps to find Longitude and Latitude

Put through R code to make an interactive map

Finding and Documenting the processes required to run the R code may be necessary
Works on Carto and looks really cool
We do eventually need to have a plug in and a Carto account so that we can post this on the Wiki

Accelerator Quality Issue Brief

Houston Accelerators (issue brief)

Factors to look at

Value Added
- How to look at this though?
Market vs Non-Market
- Philanthropic funding?
  - If Non-Profit: Propublica will document contributions
  - If for profit: call?
- Founded Bottom up? or Top down?
  - See if it was founded by a group or individual with actual industry connections (online or phone)
Location
- Proximity to resources
  - We may have to update the startups in Houston map for this
Available Resources (we should generally be able to call or find this on website, these should be things they brag about)
- Flex Space
- Events
- Co-Working
- Connections/Mentorship
  - This can also have a judged value based on Mentor/Connection perceived experiece
- Funding (This may be hard but if they offer their own VC we can check through SDC)
- Userbase
Leadership/Experience qualifications (Linkedin, profiles on their own websites, other bios)
- Have they driven a startup before or been in backseat
- What other qualifications do they have
Criteria from the Acc Rankings (as long as we have portfolios then we can use SDC for this)
- VC funding history
- IPO
- Acquired
Any other reviews possible
- Other articles (Xconomy, Houston Chronicle, etc.)
- Info from actually calling the accelerators (Putting a list of questions up on the discussion for Houston Accelerators (issue brief)
- perhaps reviews from startups themselves
  - Could look specifically into startups that have gone through multiple accelerators hopefully we have phone numbers on File:HSM10.xlsx

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